Old boy educates young fighter

[Mr_Wood]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=93 ... 42&fref=nf

[windwalker]

haha, funny.

old tiger, young cub.

the young guy, didnt have the same intent
as the older guy, didnt understand until it
was to late.

[Mr_Wood]

yeah the young lad obviously thought it was just going to be a bit of friendly sparring, then the old fella let rip lol

[Andy_S]

Not sure if this is anything to do with age, more to do with technique: Simply put, the old fella could box, the young guy could not.

He had no defense - no guard, no bob, no weave. He even turned his back on him, which is a classic beginner's error.

[Mr_Wood]

I think both points are valid but the young lad wouldn't have been able to cope with him even if he had taken it more seriously, so more to do with experience and technique and less to do with the intent, although this added to the ass wooping he received as he had no idea what was coming and was very blasé. Like you said, turning his back, dropping his guard, underestimating his opponent, all pretty basic stuff. More the fool him.

[Alexatron]

And beautifully immortalized on the Internet for time immemorial . . . I'm so glad it 'net and cheap video cameras weren't around when I was young and foolish.

[Strange]

i like that!

[Steve James]

yeah the young lad obviously thought it was just going to be a bit of friendly sparring, then the old fella let rip lol

Maybe the point about being an old fella is that he doesn't have the time to mess around, and he knows how to end the fight
It's hard to say whether the young guy would do better in a 3 minute bout. Otoh, ime, it's rare for non-sports fights to last 3 minutes. It takes planning.

But, I also think that the "old guy" in the vid is a ringer. He might have been ranked or even a champ in his younger days.

[Michael Babin]

As an old fella, I had a new hero after watching that clip but I also wondered if the young fellow had been set-up by his buddies as a little joke. Martial artists often have that somewhat sadistic sense of humour [i.e., To a beginner with a bad attitude: "Yeah, teacher doesn't mind if you attack him suddenly from behind, he likes to be surprised."